Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 12

We started out for the Peace Museum earlier than the other mornings. We wore specially designed shirts and hats with emblems of Tehran Peace Museum on them. It wasn’t very long to the Peace Park as it would take the slowest of us some 20 minutes to get there. We were supposed to be there before 8. The young stewards at the Park received every guest with a flower. Others would hand us the program timetable in English and Japanese. One of them told us it is a tradition to keep the flowers and lay them at the monument of the bombardment victims as the program is over. The seats were preset for every group of the guests. We were guided to one side of the setting where Japanese hosts awaited us. They showed us our seats and gave everyone a bottle of cool water. The sun was about to rise and the shadows were diminishing.

ORAL HISTORY: A Collaborative Method of (Auto)Biography Interview (Part II)

Last week Part I of this article was presented here. Now here is Part II: During data collection, oral history relies on recording verbal communication between the researcher and research subject. We can break this down further and say that oral history is dependent on two techniques which foster the flow of data: talking and listening. Before a story is even told the interviewer and interviewee can begin to understand how to listen and talk in the context of producing a life narrative. It is important that the interviewer and interviewee begin to create a rapport prior to the first recorded interview session (if possible), a rapport which they must attend to throughout the interviewing process. While rapport is always dialectical, the primary responsibility is with the researcher who has initiated the research process. This may mean some preliminary discussions so that both parties feel comfortable with each other and begin to become familiar with each other’s “talk style.”

ANZAC Memories

Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of oral history and war memory. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great war on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’. Ian McGibbon concluded that 'anyone interested in the limitations and potentialities of oral testimony will find Anzac Memories an absorbing study'.

Afghans oral history sets the record straight

FOR most Canadians, the word "Afghanistan" conjures up images of terrorists in training, wounded troops and Taliban forces. Everyday Afghan people rarely made headlines. Until now. Researchers at the University of Winnipeg's Oral History Centre are documenting the experiences of young people who fled Afghanistan and settled in Winnipeg. "Canada has a history of involvement in Afghanistan and most of what we know comes from the media," said project leader Allison Penner.

Have you been in the dock at old crown court?

A council is seeking former criminals to help them tell the history of an old courtroom. West Dorset District Council wants to hear from anyone who may have appeared in the dock, served on a jury or worked at the old Crown Court in Dorchester. The Shire Hall Oral History Project is linked to plans to turn the Shire Hall in High West Street into a major visitor centre. These plans could see the Grade I listed building transformed into an internationally important heritage centre.

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